Written by TG Equipment editor on Friday 14 December 2007
Scores of your favourite driver models are to become illegal on January 1 after a change in the rules around driver design. According to the Royal and Ancient Golf Club, the body that oversees golf’s rules, many new drivers are actually breaking size regulations and you won’t be allowed to use them in any form of compeition from Janury 1 2008. Illegal drivers are those...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Friday 14 December 2007
Looking for the best golf clothing to keep you warm and dry this winter? Then look no further. Today’s Golfer has hundreds of the best new golf accessories out there and we’ve added a heap more for you. Over the next few months we’ll be adding thousands more bit of golf equipment with everything from new drivers, new golf irons and...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 13 December 2007
The King Cobra UFi irons are designed to help beginners and game improvers hit more powerful and more accurate iron shots. More details… The new club, which hits the shops in the shops from February, the new UFi has a recommended retail price of £699 in graphite (5-SW) and £600 in steel (5-SW). More details… Today’s Golfer was the first to get its...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Tuesday 4 December 2007
Looking for the perfect Christmas gift for your kids? Explanar is offering a fantastic 20% discount on its revolutionary Golf Training System. The Explanar Junior will cost £399 rather than £499 – a special offer that’s valid from the 1st December– 31st March 2007. The Explanar Junior was launched in May this year and is specifically designed for children between the...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Friday 30 November 2007
The new Lynx Black Cat Tour irons integrate the design of a traditional forged iron with the greater performance benefits and improved playability of a cavity back iron into one stunning set of irons. Individually forged from 8620 mild carbon steel, the Lynx Black Cat Tour irons provide an exceptional soft, yet solid, forged feel with an inner cavity design...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 29 November 2007
Callaway Golf – a name synonymous with making ultra-forgiving irons – has taken a giant break from tradition by unveiling their first-ever set of blades. The prototype X-Muscle irons have already won on Tour in the hands of World Number Two Phil Mickelson. “It was a great opportunity to test the new Callaway golf equipment,” Mickelson said. “I’m going to put the new golf irons into play in 2008 and...
Written by TG Staffwriter on Thursday 22 November 2007
Nike are reinventing one of golf’s best shoes for 2008 to create the Nike Air Tour TW 8.5. The top of the range Nike Air Tour TW 8.5 shoe replaces the current ‘Tiger Woods’ footwear and features a host of new technology designed to keep you stable, warm and dry during your round. The £120 Nike Air Tour TW 8.5 will be...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 21 November 2007
Srixon has unveiled a brand new specialist wedge for 2008. It’s called the Srixon WG-706 and was designed with the help of prominent US Tour pro Jim Furyk. The new Srixon WG-706 wedge has a carbon steel club head with a tour profile and special UV grooves that are designed to increase the spin on your touch shots. The reason the grooves are so...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Monday 19 November 2007
Phil Mickelson has been working on a new wedge for 2008 alongside Callaway’s top club designers and they’ve come up with this:the Callaway X Forged C-Grind. The top quality clubs are already proving popular on Tour as the world’s top pros test them on the range and the new C-shaped sole design is winning lots of fans. The distinctive sole increases versitility,...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Friday 16 November 2007
Callaway lit up the driver market last year with the introduction of the world’s first square offering and they’ve followed it with this beauty for 2008. The regular-shaped Callaway Hyper X driver has been designed with distance in mind and better players will love it, as we found when we handed it to Peterborough-based PGA Pro Dan Frost. Find out what he...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Friday 16 November 2007
It’s Driver World Cup time again and this week we’re putting the Callaway Hyper X against the Nike Sumo 5900 driver. The two 2008 drivers form part of this year’s knockout competition, which sees eight of next year’s best drivers pitted against each other to find out which one is best. To help find out we have employed three golfers of varying...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Wednesday 14 November 2007
Yonex’s new driver – the Yonex Nanospeed i Driver – has been voted best new golf club of 2008 by industry experts. Incredibly the new Nanospeed beat off ALL its big brand rivals to claim the coveted prize at this year’s annual Golf Europe show, in Munich, Germany. The new golf club features several new technologies, including a very clever new shaft...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Friday 9 November 2007
It’s Friday and that can only mean one thing – it’s Driver World Cup time again and this week we’re putting the Wilson Spine driver against the Mizuno MP600. The two 2008 drivers form part of this year’s knockout competition, which sees eight of next year’s best drivers pitted against each other to find out which one is best. To help find...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Thursday 1 November 2007
This putter could sell for £30,000 whenn it goes up for auction in the new year. The putter was owned by Samuel Ryder, the man who gave his name to golf’s most famous competition, the Ryder Cup. The putter is a Robert Forgan mallet-shaped putter from around 1910,. It’s stamped with the initials ‘SR’ and is being sold with a signed letter from Joan Scarfe...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Wednesday 31 October 2007
Stylo, one of Britain’s best known golf shoe manufacturers, is back on course following major investment, with a brand relaunch and a comprehensive redesign of its products. New look Stylo shoes, including the brand’s bestselling Typhoon line, are back with a bang thanks to major reinvestment in the company’s design processes. Mark Wilkinson, the clothing and fashion entrepreneur who acquired exclusive...
Wednesday 31 October 2007
YES! Golf, the leader in grooved putter technology, is adding a new mallet putter to its line-up for 2007 – the Valerie. The C-Groove Valerie made its debut on the PGA Tour during the Players Championship, where the runner-up used a prototype and rolled in four straight birdies on the back nine of the final round to climb into second...
Written by TG equipment editor on Friday 19 October 2007
If you had spent £50 on a new three wood five years ago there would have been little doubt that it would have been about as much use as a chocolate fire guard and built as well as a Korean plastic toy. MD Golf’s new Purespin range is testament then to how far golf club technology has come in recent years...
Written by TG Equipment Editor on Wednesday 17 October 2007
Today’s Golfer brought you the world exclusive first images of Srixon’s new Z-RW driver and i-701 irons last week and we’ve now had a chance to hit them both so we can tell you about them. Both of the new golf clubs have been met with acclaim since information on them started leaking out earlier this month and we can now...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Tuesday 16 October 2007
It has the loft of a seven iron and yet it is designed by one of the world’s best putter makers to help you hole more putts. So what the hell are Odyssey playing at? Apparantly the Odyssey Marxman X-Act is a ‘putter wedge’ that has been designed to help eliminate the chipping yips by supplying the poor chipper with a weapon...
Written by TG Equipment editor on Monday 15 October 2007
Big brand irons not good enough for you? Itching to stick a set of limited edition, hand crafted clubs into your bag? Then look no further. You may not of heard of Vega Golf but for a few golf equipment connoisseurs the Japanese club craftsmen make the best irons on the planet – bar none. Apparantly their club makers honed their skills from...